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Strange birds eating snakes on cactuses is no basis for a system of government (sopuli.xyz)
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[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Context: The legendary founding of Tenochtitlan (today Mexico City), originally built literally on a lake. The story goes that the spot for the city was shown to a wandering tribe of Mexica by gods - an eagle with a snake in its beak perched on a cactus.

Btw, not my meme it's been around for years in original mexican

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Thanks for sharing this nice peek into Mexican history. It led me to Aztec priests, their razor-sharp obsidian blades and the impressions of Spanish conquistadores, detailing the things they saw, before they started doing what conquistadores do...

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

It maddens me to no end that the Aztecs had a fairly robust writing and number system with an extensive written history that was almost entirely burned and destroyed by the Spanish.

[-] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Conquist-adoring everyone and everything in sight of course

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